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Well, I seem to have a different perspective, and I did get to play with it in 10.5 (legally). I hate cover-flow for iTunes, I don't tend to listen by albums and I get no joy out of flowing through my music covers.
That said, the use of it on the file system has great potential, for anyone with an archive of stuff to sift through, especially if your weak in the naming your files department.
For example, I scan most of my paper documents I want to keep using a document scanner that saves it in PDF form. I will import a lot at one setting and will rarely take the time to name those documents anything useful. One day, I was trying to find something, I knew it had a color, which made it easier, but I had tool at the "preview" mode of all the pdfs to try and find the document, as these had not be OCR'd and searchable by spotlight.
Having Coverflow for that purpose, seems like a great idea, I could easily flip through my hundreds of PDFs and find what I was looking for.
In addition, if you where a designer and had a lot of PSD files or various things and where sifting through something to find something that you don't remember the name or named it untitled 2.psd, then you can sift through your psd files that way.
So, I think in the finder arena, it has tons more potential than in the music arena, but then again, it all comes into what is useful to you. If you tag your files, file them correctly and name them something useful... the cover-flow may not be useful.
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